On 3/8/2021 12:13 PM, Ed Maste wrote:
> 5. Retire the special case for -I "".
Just to be clear, we are not suggesting removing compat for -i '' right?
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 16:41, Ed Maste wrote:
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> On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 15:55, Ian Lepore wrote:
> >
> > I also hate the idea of requiring no space between -I and its related
> > value. That seems like a huge POLA violation compared to how virtually
> > every other command's options and argument
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 17:00, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
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> How is the program suppose to tell when the extension is "-e", or -e
> is a different option and not the argument to -I?
-i-e is an in-place edit with extension "-e"
-i -e is an in-place edit with no extension
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Ed Maste wrote this message on Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 15:13 -0500:
> A relatively minor but longstanding incompatibility between FreeBSD
> and many other systems is the way sed handles backup files for
> in-place editing -- sed's -I and -i options. GNU sed and other BSDs
> accept an optional argument
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 15:55, Ian Lepore wrote:
>
> I also hate the idea of requiring no space between -I and its related
> value. That seems like a huge POLA violation compared to how virtually
> every other command's options and arguments work.
On the other hand, -i.ext with no space is compati
Ian Lepore wrote in
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|On Mon, 2021-03-08 at 15:13 -0500, Ed Maste wrote:
|> A relatively minor but longstanding incompatibility between FreeBSD
|> and many other systems is the way sed handles backup files for
|> in-place editing --
On Mon, 2021-03-08 at 15:13 -0500, Ed Maste wrote:
> A relatively minor but longstanding incompatibility between FreeBSD
> and many other systems is the way sed handles backup files for
> in-place editing -- sed's -I and -i options. GNU sed and other BSDs
> accept an optional argument: -I.bak will
On 2021-03-08 12:13, Ed Maste wrote:
A relatively minor but longstanding incompatibility between FreeBSD
and many other systems is the way sed handles backup files for
in-place editing -- sed's -I and -i options. GNU sed and other BSDs
accept an optional argument: -I.bak will save a backup file w
A relatively minor but longstanding incompatibility between FreeBSD
and many other systems is the way sed handles backup files for
in-place editing -- sed's -I and -i options. GNU sed and other BSDs
accept an optional argument: -I.bak will save a backup file with a
.bak extension, and -I with no ar
